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02183aam a2200289Ki 4500 001 A08C58BC7B2811EB8960C99555ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210302012545 008 191122s2020 enkab b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9781912248605 (hardcover) 020 $a 1912248603 035 $a (OCoLC)1128197543 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d NFG $d OCLCO $d CLE $d DZM $d OCLCF $d IW5 $d SILO 050 4 $a PT2670.O36 $b W75 2020 082 04 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Wright, Patrick, $e author. 245 10 $a Sea View has me again: $b Uwe Johnson in Sheerness / $c Patrick Wright ; with translations from the German by Damion Searls. 260 $a London : $b Repeater Books, $c 2020. 300 $a 733 pages : $b illustrations, map ; $c 24 cm 500 $a "A Repeater Books hardback original"--Title page verso. 520 $a The story of Uwe Johnson, one of Germany's greatest and most-influential post-war writers, and how he came to live and work in Sheerness, Kent in the 1970s.In 1974, a strange man called "Charles" arrived in the small town of Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. He could often be found sitting at the bar in the Napier Tavern, drinking beer and smoking Gaulloises while flicking through the Kent Evening Post. But who was this unlikely newcomer? This "Charles" was in actual fact Uwe Johnson, one of the greatest and most-influential East-German writers of the post-war period. But what quirk of Cold War history had caused him to end up in Sheerness, when his contemporaries had instead fled the DDR to Rome, New York or West Berlin? Drawn from Johnson's letters to his friends Max Frisch, Hannah Arendt, Christa Wolf, and others, as well as contemporary accounts and archival materials, this intriguing mix of literary and cultural history and memoir uncovers the last ten years of Johnson's life as it was in Sheerness, set against the backdrop of the social and cultural upheaval of the late 1970s. 600 10 $a Johnson, Uwe. $b Biography. 650 0 $a Authors $v Biography. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20210302015831.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A08C58BC7B2811EB8960C99555ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search